Chapter 2
I stood still for a moment, stunned! trying to take in what he just said. He didn't think it would come
To this...my death, those last few words played over and over again in my head, as I tried to make
sense of them, what had Gale done that was so bad? Wasn't the President captured anyway? Oh
wait, the war hadn't ended yet so he still was maybe alive and somewhere in this house, that
thought made my spine run cold….so maybe Snow still had something planned for me, but why
would Gale be involved? Oh! Something struck me, but it still didn't make much sense. Gale was
captured by those peacekeepers and they could have maybe manipulated him to do something
against his will, but the President himself was in the mansion, but the peacekeepers maybe already
knew about the plan and had orders to…
suddently, everything went black. It was if someone had pulled something over my head, a bag
maybe but anyway I couldn't see a thing! I felt rough, strong arms lifting me and I suddenly
remembered that my disguises must of come off in my shock or Gale and I's conversation…Gale.
Is this what he was trying to warn me about? people coming and taking me…away, I suddenly got
what he meant and it was a bigger shock than him trying to warn me, he had something to do with
my capture!
I struggled against the arms and started screaming, shouting, hoping that anyone would hear me,
I felt my eyes go all stingy as the agonising truth of what Gale had done came to me: he had
betrayed me…
He had handed me in to the President, sacrificing my life, for something he finds important.
Unless it was his own life, which would be a different matter to me, he had brought on this
deception himself, I felt pain everywhere, nowhere that peacekeepers nor Snow could touch me,
because it was emotional pain! I thought that Gale and I had our differences…but that we had each
others backs always.It was just one of those things that best friends have and now that he's gone
and done this….
My anger got worse and worse and as I was getting dragged off I was nearly hurting the
Peacekeepers more than they were hurting me.
"LET GO OF ME!" I screamed at them, tackling them but they just continued to hold their grip tighter
each time, I punched, kicked, even bit them as I tried to fight off emotional trauma while also trying
to get free…I also thought of my family, how they would feel at my death, especially Prim…Prim!
I'd forgotten about her in my anger and confusion with Gale.
"PRIM! PRIM! WHERE ARE YOU?" I started screaming, hoping that she wasn't captured as well,
"IM SO SORRY FOR LEAVING YOU FOR SO LONG, I REALLY AM!"
Then, I suddently heard a broken, traumatized voice saying, "its okay Katniss…im here, im right
beside you,"
at that note, I moved my hands down to the ground feeling around for any signs of her, and sure
enough, when I leaned over a bit more, I found her hair…I started sobbing.
"oh Prim.." I sobbed, stroking her hair, "i-I'm gonna die and I'll never see you again!"
"its okay," said Prim, crying, but comforting, "you'll stay strong in there, I promise,"
"I-I wont," I sobbed even louder, "i-I can't go through this anymore…"
"you will Katniss!" she almost exclaimed, "because If I didn't know you any better, you would
Breeze right through it all, because you survive everything that's thrown at you!"
"but what if I give up Prim!" I still sobbed, feeling myself shake," what if I have been through so
much that they have finally found a chance to break me? I am much weaker than I was,"
"DON'T give up Katniss," Prim said, tears running down her cheeks now more quickly like mine,
"please…I can't bear to lose you, you know how iv been acting all grown up all of a sudden? Its
because im trying to hide all the pain, and hurt, and sorrow that the last 2 games have brought to
me! fears of you dying, of you giving up and just disturbing thoughts of doubt that keep me awake
most nights, I'm still a little girl inside, iv been through almost as much as you,"
"You too? P-Prim I'm so sorry!" I sobbed, trying to hug her, but failing, "I thought that it was only
tributes that had those kind of nightmares, im going to try and stay alive through this…for you,"
Prim didn't reply, because she was taken away by some more peacekeepers, she started screaming
And at first I thought it was because of them but then I realised that it was because of me.I screamed
one last thing out before a sleeping drug was forced into my body by a rather large looking needle,
"PRIM… I PROMISE!"